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Why Are Cyprus Reunification Talks Taking Place Now?

More than forty years after Cyprus was split in two, Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet in Switzerland for last-chance talks to reunify the island.

by Sinan Ülgen

published by

ABC News

on January 11, 2017

Source: ABC News

Carnegie Europe’s Sinan Ülgen joined ABC’s Auskar Surbakti to discuss the Cypriot peace talks taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. Ülgen hoped that a settlement agreement would be reached but admitted that this could be problematic ahead of Turkey’s upcoming constitutional referendum.

This broadcast was originally aired on ABC Australia.

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